Modelling the atmospheric response over southern Africa to SST forcing in the southeast tropical Atlantic and southwest subtropical Indian oceans

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1001-1012

  Hansingo, K ^a   Reason, C J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modelling; South Atlantic; South Indian Ocean; SST forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; BAROCLINIC; BENGUELA; COASTAL REGIONS; INDIAN OCEAN; LOW LEVEL; MOISTURE CONVERGENCE; RAINFALL ANOMALY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SST ANOMALIES; SST FORCING; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONES; EXPERIMENTS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67649979949     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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